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(IE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER FOUNDED ACGt'81 1, 1WJO. 126 North Main Street * ANDERSON, M. C. W. W. 8MOAK, Editor and HUP. Mgr D. WATSON BELL.City Editor PHELPS SASSEEN. Advertising Mgr T. B, GODFREY.Circulation Mgr. BL ADAMS, Telegraph Editor aad Foreman. Member ot Associated Prese and Receiving Complete Daily Telegraphic j Service. Entered according to Act of Con grats as Second (Muss Mail Matter at the Poatomce at Anderson, S. C SUBSCRIPTION BATES Semi-weekly One Year .$1.5o| Six Months .7fi Hally One Year .$5.00] Six Months . 2.501 Three Months .... Hi TELEPHONES Editorial and Duel; ess Office.3211 Job Printing .693-L . The Intelligencer is delivered by carriers in the city, if you fall to get your paper regularly please notify iii). Opposite your name on thc' libel of your paper ls printed date to which our paper is paid. Al1 check? ?nd drafts should be drawn to Thc Anderson Intelligencer. Tho Weather. Bpnth Carolina: Local rains Satur day; Sunady probably fair. ocoooooooooooooooooo o OU?. DAILY THOUGHT ?I . o oOooooooooooo noon ooo Let UH Smile. The thing that goes tho farthest to ward making life worth while. That costs the least and does the most, ls just a little smile. The smile that bubbles from a heart that, lavas .its fellow men .. Wlil drive away the cloud of gloom and coax the sun again. Ifs foti of' worth-end goodness, too, with manly'kindness blent; It's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent. -Selected. Galley slaves-printers. 0 Nobody loves the poor war poet Also, when everybody works and nobody plays, the result ls nil. Better go slow, young fellow. She may not be the girl you think she Is. o love thy neighbor as theyaelf; but leave his property alone. ? o Make this your motto: Think thoughts and do things. Yon may as well be a grand rascal?! ?? to have everybody think so, as fa T. "a thu MrM la ?wimmul The hog and hominy farmer may not have as much gold as a cotton fanner, but he should bibble; he's got the eats. They say Spartanburg is the city of j success. Well, they haven't seen An derson. Some people's object in life seems j to bo to .give tho other fellow a per manent black eye. -o Not long now until some of thc people of South Carolina will make an honest endeavor to digest some of the W. K. Sg. means of Columbia. oooooooooooooooooooo . . . OUR DAILY POEM o o . .oooooooooooooooooo He DM it. Somebody said that lt couldn't be done. But, he, with a chuckle, replied. That "maybe it couldn't," but he would SA ima . Who wot tdn't ssy so till he'd tried Po he chuckled right In with the trace Of ?grin On his lace. If ho worried he hid lt He started to sing as he tackled the thing |SW That couldn't be done, and he did it. Somebody scoff od. "Oh. you'll never do that At 1 east an on* he? ever ?*3se ?L" But he took, ott hts coat and' he took off hts hat. And the first thing he knew, he'd 7 begun it, With the lift of hi* chin and a blt of a grin. If any doubt rose he forbids it; Ha started to sing and- he tackled the? thing That couldn't be done, and he did There are thornlands to tell you it can not be ?one; There aro thou?-?no's to point ont t?| y.-?u. one 07 on?. The -dangers that wait ir. assail you. But lost buckle in with a blt of a grin, I Tait? take ott your coat and go to] it, Jn#t fast in to sing as 70U uckic the lb lng ,1 ?V/W?*.-? i.j.iJ . Thr.t c*w?ot bs and yecll d'? -Kew York Tribune. . NOT A I'OOlt MAN'S MEASURE Among th?' nu mtier? of gentlemen present In Columbia und urging thc Ueneral Assembly to submit a bond bill lo the people which would make South Carolina n purchaser of cotton at ten cents a pound when colon it* wort li in til? market ?Ix or seven cents a pound, The State would like to know If the railroad brakemen, con ductors, firemen and engineers are represented. Are repr?sentatives of 125,000 cot ton mill operatives and their families urging the passage of a bill menacing the State with a permanent debt of $20,000,000? Are spokesmen for 35,000 white ten ant farmers who, if cotton be bought at ten cents a pound, will turn over practically all they have to landlords and merchants, who In any case will be tenant farmers next year as they are now, in si si in g that the bond bill be passed? Of Hie white population of 725,000 in South Carolina, ut lea?t 400,000 have little or nothing to gain from the bond scheme. Who are their representatives in the General Assembly? Who ls speak ing for them? Who for them is ap proaching members and senators and begging that the bill be passed? The Hampton'administration reduc ed the public debt of the State, by the elimination of fraudulently issued bonds, to a sum between six and seven millions of dollars. lu thirty-six or seven years the debt bas been reduced about one million and that has been done, for the most part, by the sale of public lands. If the public debt shall be in creased by ten or twenty millions the increase will be with us to stay. In the main lt will be a BURDEN ON LABOR, The grandsons and the great grand sons of the railroad brakemen, the salesman, the mill operative, the street car conductor and tho tenant will feel lt in the RENTS THEY WILL BE ASKED TO PAY. These laboring men will themselves feel it. If memberB of the General Assem bly must pass what Senator Walker denounces as a menace "vicious in principle" while casting his vote for lt, let thom do so with their eyes open. Let them not fancy that they are com ing to the rescue of "the poor man." In tho last analysis, the load of pub lic debt ls in great measure carried on the shoulders of labor. Laoor does not pay a great deal tn direct taxes. Indirectly, in rents, . in the cost of those necessaries furnished Jb? public utility companicB and in thc adjustment of the wage scale, labor gets the big end of the log. For the most part this newspaper derives lt main support from prop erty holders. From a temporary dis tribution of largess by increase of the public debt to property holders, The State would have V* share. " From a selfish point of view, The State has as much at stake as any property holder and is suffering not less than others from the existing hard and harrasslng conditions. That shall not deter The State from putting the case plainly; from saying that the bond Is sue, even if it would help the property holders (which we do not for a mo ment believe), is in essence If not In design a measure destructive of the In terest of the great mass of tho people and calculated to strengthen tne fet ters of their poverty.-The State. OPPOSITION AT SEA. "The Republics is oucM to stop crit icising the Democratic administration or stop voting for its measures." Thus spoke Representative Chue, of Indiana, a few days ago, and creat ed a situation among tho Republicans, that ls inter .-sting and unusual. It ls a fact that while certain of the Repub lican loaders have been severely crit icising the Democratic administration and the measures which lt has put through Congress in the past eighteen months, yet numbors' of tho Republi cans in both houses of Congress have, ?when the test came, voted for those ?measures. In at least one Instance the strange situation was presented of op position lo a measure on the part of Republican leaders merely because, apparently, they considered it their duty to oposc a Democratic proposal, ?when the measure finally passes the House by a, unanimous vote. Thu ls all the moro significant when lt is (noted that the measure In question was ons cf the Democratic party's anti-trust bills-an essentially party measure. Every Republican In the Honan voted for Gie Trade Commission 1 bUL.although some of them had spok en against ita provisions on the floor. Tho Clayton anti-trust bill, perhaps the most important of Gie Democratic measures of Gie present Congress, asido from the tariff and currency MU?, received Gie votes of ?fl Repub licans In Gie House, while only 64 Republicans voted against lt The Ray burn bill, which enlarged the juris diction of the Interstate Commerce Commission so as to extend it over the Issuance of railway vecurities, was supported In Gie House by 80 Repub licans and 14 Boll Moose representa Gve?. One of Gie Republicans ?np porting the measure wus Mr. Mann, the leader. Only 12 votes 'were east against it, though itH passage, aim... '? with thut of nearly every other party measure, wau long delayed. On lix- finest ?mis of authorizing; the President's Mexican policy and lils use of emergency mites in that connec tion, there was very decided Republi can Htipport of the administration iu both houses. Even on the currency question, which was delayed from May of last year until u couple of days be fore Christmas by those who did nut want it to pass yet dared not vote against it, finally received 35 Repub lican voteB in the House and 4 from the opposition in the Senate. There was slightly more cohesive ness among the Republicana on the tariff, but even "on this question there was support for tho Underwood ball from |he opposition that was notice able. Seven votes in the Houuc and two in the Senate were casi for this measure by those not of the adminis tration party. Such facts as these indicate that the Democrats aro really representative of thc sentiment of the country, and that the opposition has little left to stand on.-that ii is almost at sea. POLLY ANNA CL CB "Polly Anna." "The Glad Book," ls tho title of a popular little story now being widely read. It ia the story of a little girl, the daughter of a poor min Ister, who lived in a Western state lng great poverty. Her father and mother died, she was sent East to live with a wealthy maiden aunt. During her father's lifetime th^y '.'played" a game called "being glad," and as she explained it to her maiden mint tho way the game was played was to lind something in everything that hap pened to be glad about. There was never a catastrophe so great but this little girl could find some phase about which to be glad. She preached this new philosophy to everyone with whom she carno in contact, and soon they were playing the game too. It ?B said that Polly Anna clubs are being formed in many places, and members are deriving much good from tho plan of being "glad' over everything that happens. The Intelligencer believes that the organization of "Polly Anna" clubs In the South just now would be a good thing. Seriously, this would help smooth out many rough places. For Instance If a farmer Otas debts to pay and six cent cotton to pay them with, and a short crop at that, he. can be ghid that he has health and strength and hope in his heart for belier times. Then he can be glad for the wife and little ones God bas given him to bless bis home. He can be glad that his ad versity has shown him his true friends and. he can know how much he can rely upon them In times of distress. Now, had you thought of this In just th's wayfSSat it worth while to cul tivate optimism in thought and deed? And lt can be cultivated. One can be clad all the time or carry a grouch. One can smile or frown, these arc voluntary actB on tho part of every one. "The man worth while is the man who can smile. When everything goes dead wrong." "HIFT IN THE CLOUDS." A dispatch from Columbia publish ed in today's paper states, "It seems as if the acreage reduction measure will be the only one to be passed," leaving '.?ut of course, the appropria tion bill of $100,000 to pay members for their services in "saving the coun try." Of course, the acreage reduction bill will not amount to much, and will not be enforced, so the action bf the legislature will not be productive of much good, as we see it Unfortun ately the legislature, when lt found lt could not do any real thing to aid the farmers, did not adjourn, but kept holding on with a view to letting the "dear peepul" know just how desper ately thoy were In earnest. The result is that they have been Jroldlng out a forlorn hope that something would ul timately be done, "and the people have been patiently waiting to be saved. The legislature will soon adjourn and the farmers will then have to go lt alone or seek aid elsewhere. The "rift In the clouds" appesrs now bi the statement that the financiers of (he money centers aro going to get together and "finance" the South's cot ton crop. This ls what is needed Just now, and then let us have every spin dle in tho country going full time get ting the products ready for consump tion. Holding cotton off the* market win not solve the problem ultimate ly. This will on*y defer the evil day. What will really help ls to get more consumers and more avenues to use cotton nooda. Fortunately this is be ing done now ss never before, and the finding of new avendes of use for the staple has only lust begun. Mil lions of'bales of cotton caa be con sumed right here in the United Stat te la excess of what has been used if every pound were used by manufac turers to bale their product,, and by the farmers themselves to bag their cotton, to say nothing ot the' excess ia consumption ot cotton goods for clcth -m _ lng and other domestic uses. I>et the United StateB be loyal lo home pro luets, and require every article to bear the label "Made in the U. S. A." THANKS, AvTFULLY, NEIGH BOB We lift our hat and extend our hand to new Editor W. W. Srnoak ot The Anderson Intelligencer. A wor thy man of line ability, made edftor of a reully good, reliable paper. We feel sure that Brother Smoak will make good. In fact, he lias already made good.-Tho Pickcns Sentinel. IT DOES NOT IIKKE * "Our dally poem," ",Juj:ulinP' which you see in a good many newspapers, doesn't mean that thc editors wrote the poem. Most editors are better poets than sume of the Bluff they pub lish.-Greenwood Journal. THE AMERICAN MOBILIZATION ?root Army Being Trained for Service ? in Peaceful Fields- Soe to It That They are .Protected. (From Insurance Herald.) The latest Issue of the agency pa per of an insurance, company carries an interesting article on the Great American Mobilization, and a strong argument ls made to fathers to see that this army-formed by the pupilo school system-receives proper insu rance protection during its period of training, so that it may light the bat tles of Peace successfully. The arti cle follows: "As wo go to press, tho United States has completed the great annual American mobilization. By this an army of more than ten million sold iers ls sent into training each year for a period of nine months. One-third of all the taxes of the Republic are spent on this army. The people of the nation save and sacrifice to feed and equip at their own expense the im mense levy of recruits for its service. Its great /forts rear their battlements In the crowded cities and stretch out into all parts of the broad land. There is not a valley so. sequestered, not a district SQ remote, but the flag floats there over some little garrison of this mighty army. It is, taking it all in al), the most wonderful army in tho world. Its ar senals aro Ailed, not with rifles, but with books; Its instructors do not teach straight shooting, but straight thinking; and tts raw recruits are trained for the battle of life that they may conquer Nature's laws and not clear eyes, stakes the future of its oeo their fellow men, that they may wrest wealth from the resources of the earth and not from the possession of their neighbors. It is the army upon, which the United States of America, with pie: It is known as the Public School System. Probably the finest , part of lt all is that this great army in for the most part made up of .volunteers.. Only In parts of the country ls tho service compulsory and then only* up to a limited age. In thousands of localities the bulk of the children In the grades and thc entire high school division of this tremendous force is in training because parents are able add willing to devote a substantial portion of their income to the development of those who, in many another land, are look ad upon as a source of revenue to the household. > If you have children in school, Mr. Policyholder, that ls. something to think about. Are you leaving to your good wife the solution of the school probieiu for your children - if you should pass away before their train ing ls complete? How would it be with . those brave young soldiers nf yours if the weekly envelope or the monthly salary check suddenly ceased to come In? Have you ever paused to think how absolutely dependent your family has become upon that regular amount which you receive from your finn or draw from your cash account? Protection Against Everything. There ts food for thought In this. Certainly it ts worth while in relation to this problem td think about the various forms of Insurance that will protect your children in the eveut of your demise. Death ls a strangely ar bitrary chooser, and protection, to be protection at all. must be not against a few things that may. happen,* but against anything that may happen. There is something more for you to think about in this. Mr. Policyhold er, if you happen to nave a bright raced young soldier In this great army of the Republic. If something should happen to you. ls this boy or girl who bears your name'.to drop from the ranks, or march on triumphantly to the goal of adequate preparation for life? Is the provision you have made sufficient to carry on the campaign? "And then thero ls something else the most serious thought of all. When you are pressed with tlttlb responsi bilities, when financial matters get tight, you are sometimes tempted to let*tho premium go unpaid-to let lt go altogether and allow your policy to lapse." Decrease in Cowrie Sine? War Began fi iii i,. (Ry Associated Press.) LONDON, Oct. Sfcri:(Correspondence ot The Associated Press.)-The pa triotic fervor m**m1$**r haa toached the souls of seven burglars, pickpock ets and strong-arm men. London's po lice records pro??, it, for s crime baa fallen off nearly 40 per cent since the war began. "Praise Is due ?e criminals." said Robert Wallace. &, C. in addressing, the grand jury ar the London Sos sions," for the self-control they. are exercising during this period of treas and anxiety." :-' ' W?c A well known social r of o rm or, com menting on this, attributes much ot crime to tho ebullient animal ?pirlta of youths brought op tn Ol rfokdrl sur roundings. Defiance of law and order offers them a means to escape from their dull drab ffjrtronment and to Indulge their pr seattle., for romance and adventure. ThS they now prefer to seek at the cannon's mouth. A cross of honor. v>r ? corporal's stripe? for vafea*9*rrk*tx?&!?*Wmim*r i?? The right w & Co.'s suits ue, rather til We advise tl it. The ma goods; we'v< Our cash INT more value ? oooooooooooooooooo o o :l o Letter From the People. o! o o ooooooooooooooooo The Auto Record in Renpect to Acci dent*. Editor Intelligencer: A few days ago I prepared an article for the Intelligencer, the purpose of which WBB to call attention to the reckless and dangerous speeding of autos. In this article were found many sweeping statements which I did not intend to bc taken lv>o seriously. I did not wish to offend anyon" Of | '.ourse an auto is something to be de sired, inasmuch as it greatly faci" tates travel and ia a means of quick and cheap transit from one place to another, while at thc same time it affords tu its passengers no little j amount of pleasure and comfort and I also think to ride in an automobile is j one of the best things for one's health. The greatest of blessings are often the ones that, are most greatly abused. So-it was not the owning and numil.g of automobiles that I was attacking hut their abuse. So I now wish to say a few things and leave it to others to say whether I am right or not. I want to say something about the accidents .caused by auto:; either by frightening animals or running into vehicles. The acci dents that I shall notice occurred on a stretch of road six miles long, begin ning at First Westminster Baptist .Intrch, which stands just at the east ern corpo-ate limits of the town o? Westminster, and ?nds at Bethel Bap tist church, whicn is one-half milo east of Oa-kway. On this stretch of road there have occurred within the last two years six accidents, an aver? age of one accident for every mile. In these accidents one lady waa killed, one man's mule ran away, badly dam aging his buggy, and nuning his hana so he could not work for some time. An auto ran into a buggy driven by an old man who lacked less than three years of reaching tho age of three score and ten ; in the same buggy was crushed into, and they were both thrown out of the buggy but not'burt; a negro, was thrown off a loaded wagon and crippled ; a man and his i mule was run over, the mule was] killed and the man's ankle crushed; and last, a young man's mule became frightened at an auto, ran away, threw the young' man from the buggy and rendered bim unconscious tor some ten or twelve hours, and he was not at himself again for several days. A fearful record as this ls, but a sample of what is happening all over the country. I shall now give one or two in stances of reckless driving of autos. On the afternoon bf the fifth of Sep tember a negro, on the outskirts of I, the town of Belton, was driving a one-horse wagon. Just as he was crossing a bridge and was on the ex treme right end ot the bridge, while a I buggy occupied by two ladies was in front. Without warning an auto dashed into the wagon, wrecking it and driv ing a piece ot one of the broken shaxu j through the body of the buggy in front; and yet the auto never stopped I but dashed on. One other Instance and | I am done. An old man and a llttlo boy I had been to church and had almost (I reached home. Behind them was a youth on horseback, he was Just about to pass the buggy by going to the right-this of course threw the buggy further from the right side of the road Just at this instant An ou to horn in rapid succession sounded five times. The youth suddenly ""cried auto, and quick almost aa thought it seemed tL auto rae Into the buggy and tossed ito Inmates out .Just above this place were two or taree curves, yet in rounding these ?ot once did. the auto sound his horn. When he had passed the last curve and sounded his horn be could not have been more than 75 yards behind the buggy, yet he did sot slow up but crashed Into the baggy and then claimed that he was' not to blame, M. N. MITCHELL: have heretofore been considered can* li didates for the gallows. The annual report of the prison com- j missioners for. the past year show j there has been a general decrease lr crime all over Britain. Sentences to penal serritsro are 797 as against 871 in tbs preceding year, , while the Im prisonments of all classes aro 135,140 j against 149,562. ? British reform, the substitution-of j kind and helpful treatment for the harsh disciplinary methods of old. end mercy for young of fenders H held re- ] ?]TjfAtwfta fnT .frrt tjhsaiPL^fch'fodl'?CT ' ay to pay $20 for one of B. 0. Evans ? is to think of the money as clothes val ?an so many dollars. \ ie $20 for what you are going to get for ,in thing is to be sure of getting our e put value in them. fing and cash selling enables us to give or your money. *Thc Ston uilh ? Coradine li Advertising io The Intelligencer Pays Parker & Bolt Hartwell, Ga, Oct. 21st, 1014. Parker & Bolt, Anderson, S. C. Dear SITS Enclosed find $3.05 for which piease send ute by Parcel Post a Hat, the same as the cut herewith enclosed. If yon have not got the dark blue with tho pearl band, a black would do if it is exactly as shown in the cut. Ship at once. Yours very truly, . JACK HUNT. Andi v?t there are soins merenmts who try to do a " success ful business without advertising; and because they sometimes make a partial success in spite of their lack of publicity, they continue in the same old rut. Why don't they tear a leaf out of the page of the book of life of tb? really successful merchant? SASSEEN, The Ad. Man. FOR BENT-Office up-stairs In new Watson-Vandlver building and office in front of job department down stairs. Splendid central location. Apply at The Intelligencer Office. 10-2-tf Tou can get the news while.Its new n The Morning Daily Intelligencer. Better be- safe than sorry-Willett ?. Sloan, insurance. NOW LOOK OUT -FOR Bettor come in today and select your HEATERS Osar? ar? the kinds that save fuel bills and make wann howes * A Home comfortably heated day and night M the greatest {usury of winter Kfe. * ' i$? Bte' J? '>* Wa have them m various styles and sixes. Sullivan Hardware Company Anderson, S. C.', Belton, S. C. Greenville, S. C.